Skinner Memorial Chapel is a

chapel A chapel is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. Firstly, smaller spaces inside a church that have their own altar are often called chapels; the Lady chapel is a common ty ...

and historic building on the

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Carleton College Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling ...

Northfield, Minnesota Northfield is a city in Dakota and Rice counties in the State of Minnesota. It is mostly in Rice County, with a small portion in Dakota County. The population was 20,790 at the 2020 census. History Northfield was platted in 1856 by John W. N ...

, United States. It is listed on the

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. The chapel was built in 1916, fifty years after Carleton College was founded, and was financed by a gift from Emily Willey Skinner. Her husband, Miron Skinner, had been a trustee of the college until his death in 1909. The chapel was designed by the firm of Patton, Holmes & Flinn, who had organized an architectural plan for the college and designed eight other buildings. The chapel is of English

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design, with a

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shape and a tall bell tower. The interior has a dark wood ceiling with dark beams. It hosts services from a variety of religious traditions as well as weekly Carleton functions.

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* {{National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota Carleton College Churches in Rice County, Minnesota Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota University and college chapels in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Rice County, Minnesota